• One Nation [won ney-shun], noun: Facebook governor Sarah Palin’s cross-country tour, which picks back up this weekend in Iowa after a welcome yet inexplicable hiatus.

• London Riots [lun-din ry-itz], noun: A fashionable if destructive new activity that received lukewarm reviews from The Londoner, Britain’s proudest weekly.

• Unemployment [un-em-ploy-mehnt], noun: One of many conditions that may have precipitated the riots, though their causes (and goals) remain muddled.

• Germany [ger-mah-nee], noun: The “Yankees of the Eurozone,” according to Michael Lewis, who wrote about that country’s economic preeminence relative to its fellow European nations in the September issue of Vanity Fair.